One-Sport Athletes at Risk for Overuse

April 21st, 2013

Is there such a thing as too much physical activity? With more athletes than ever before specializing in one sport at a young age, sports medicine specialists are seeing an increase in overuse injuries.

Young pitchers are particularly susceptible. “If it’s tendonitis or inflammation, it will get better with rest,” says Schafer. “Kids can recover pretty well from that sort of thing. But if you do it over and over – like with little league pitchers and their elbow and shoulder injuries – that could stay with them for a lifetime.”

Saint Francis’ Coaches Clinics offer information about how to avoid overuse injuries. For more information, visit www.sfmc.net/dev-2015 or call 573-331-3996.